R Ward Holder

Biographic Data

ID611461
NAMER Ward Holder
GIVEN NAMESR Ward
FAMILY NAMEHolder
SIGNATUREHOLDER R W
AFFILIATIONSSaint Anselm College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS60
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT58
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Calvin, the Bible, and History

    R Ward HolderARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2023

  • Teaching Race, Colonialism, and Theology in a Joint Project in North America and Africa

    Cynthia Holder Rich, R Ward Holder et al.ARTICLEReligious Education2022

    How do race and lived experiences of this construct impact student theological understandings? We embarked on a joint pedagogical venture spanning two continents about race and theology with groups of students whose encounters with race and its impacts on theology were markedly different—including students whose lives and education have been formed by colonialism and its continuing legacies, and students whose grasp of theological systems had har…

  • Calvin’s Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church

    R Ward HolderARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2020

  • Donald Trump, White Evangelicals, and 2020

    Open AccessR Ward Holder, Peter B Josephson et al.ARTICLESociety2020Cited by: 1

  • John Calvin in Context

    Open AccessWard ca /21 Jh Holder, R Ward HolderBOOKJohn Calvin in Context2019

    John Calvin in Context offers a comprehensive overview of Calvin's world. Including essays from social, cultural, feminist, and intellectual historians, each specially commissioned for this volume, the book considers the various early modern contexts in which Calvin worked and wrote. It captures his concerns for Northern humanism, his deep involvement in the politics of Geneva, his relationships with contemporaries, and the polemic necessities of…

  • Emancipating Calvin

    Karen E Spierling, Erik A de Boer et al.BOOKEmancipating Calvin2018

    The eleven essays in Emancipating Calvin: Culture and Confessional Identity in Francophone Reformed Communities demonstrate the vitality and variety of early modern Francophone Reformed communities by examining the ways that local contexts shaped the reception and implementation of reforming ideas emanating especially from John Calvin and the Reformed church of Geneva. The articles address three main themes important for understanding the develop…

  • On the Worth of Church History

    R Ward HolderARTICLEChurch History and Religious…2018

  • The Reformations through Religious Eyes”

    R Ward HolderARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2018

  • Semper Reformanda

    R Ward HolderARTICLEChurch History and Religious…2017

  • Erasmus and the Novum Instrumentum

    R Ward HolderARTICLEChurch History and Religious…2016

    This issue of Church History and Religious Culture celebrates the five hundred years of influence to both religious life and piety and to scholarship that the publication of the Novum Instrumentum engendered. Truly, littera scripta manet. The essays gathered here challenge presently held notions of what Erasmus was doing in creating a critical Greek New Testament, his status as a theologian, his relationship to Jerome and the fashioning of a bibl…

  • Response to Scott R. Erwin

    Open AccessR Ward Holder, Peter B Josephson et al.ARTICLEPolitics and Religion2014

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  • Calvin and Luther

    Open AccessR Ward HolderBOOKCalvin and Luther2013

    The reforms begun by Luther and Calvin became two of the largest and most influential movements to arise in the sixteenth century, but frequently, these two movements are seen and defined as polar opposites - one's theology is Reformed or Lutheran, one is a member of a Reformed or Lutheran congregation. Historically, these were two very separate movements - but more remains to be understood that can best be analyzed in the context of the other. J…

  • Calvin and Luther

    R Ward HolderCHAPTERCalvin and Luther2013

  • The Unfolding of Words

    Open AccessR Ward HolderARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2013

    Judith Rice Henderson., ed. The Unfolding of Words: Commentary in the Age of Erasmus. Erasmus Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xxi + 278 pp. $65. ISBN: 978–1–4426–4337–6. - Volume 66 Issue 4

  • Obama's Niebuhr Problem

    Open AccessR Ward Holder, Peter B Josephson et al.ARTICLEChurch History2013References: 4

    As a candidate for president Barack Obama identified Reinhold Niebuhr as one of the most important influences on his political and social thinking. Obama's referencing of Niebuhr was not casual. Frequently, in diverse contexts, and before a variety of audiences, Obama either subtly or overtly offered Niebuhr as a guide for statesmanship. He obliquely referenced Niebuhr's two-fold test of toleration at the 2011 National Prayer Breakfast; he struct…

  • Calvin and His Influence, 1509–2009

    Open AccessR Ward HolderARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2012

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  • Obama, Romney, and Christian Realism

    Open AccessR Ward Holder, Peter B Josephson et al.ARTICLESociety2012

  • The Reformation of Feeling

    Open AccessR Ward HolderARTICLEReligious Studies Review2011

  • Calvin's Ladder

    Open AccessR Ward HolderARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2011

    Julie Canlis. Calvin's Ladder: A Spiritual Theology of Ascent and Ascension. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2010. xii + 286 pp. index. bibl. $32. ISBN: 978–0–8028–644–9. - Volume 64 Issue 2

  • Calvinist Churches in Early Modern Europe – By Andrew Spicer

    Open AccessR Ward HolderARTICLEReligious Studies Review2010

  • Johann Sleidan and The Protestant Vision of History – By Alexandra Kess

    Open AccessR Ward HolderARTICLEReligious Studies Review2010

  • Ioannis Calvini

    R Ward HolderARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2010

  • John Calvin after Five Hundred Years

    R Ward HolderARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2010

  • Reformation readings of Romans

    Kathy Ehrensperger, R Ward Holder

    This volume of essays provides presentations and analyses of several Reformation theologians' interpretations of Romans as a whole or in part, some focusing on one particular interpreter.

  • Crisis and Renewal

    R Ward Holder